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enSo Longhttp://www.domahoka.com/so-long
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">So Long</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-date field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">7 june mmxiv</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-summary field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The return makes one love the farewell</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/domahoka_fin_0.jpg" width="770" height="578" alt="DOMAHOKA: Jean-Luc Godard film still" title="Jean-Luc Godard film still" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The year MMXIV has been one of significant change for us. A beautiful and sacred one in particular—we welcomed a baby into our lives. As we start this new chapter as a trio, we say farewell to DOMAHOKA, our creative outlet as a duo. The blog will remain online as an archive of 2010–2013, of everything we liked, loved, and of those who inspired us most. Radiating peace, happiness, and tremendous thanks to you all. Goodbye for now. À suivre…</p>
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<p><u>words</u> <a href="http://twitter.com/DorisHoKane">Doris</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/MarkHoKane">Mark Ho-Kane</a></p>
<p><u>image</u> Jean-Luc Godard film still</p>
</div></div></div>Sat, 07 Jun 2014 21:35:03 +000099 at http://www.domahoka.comObliquityhttp://www.domahoka.com/obliquity
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Obliquity</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-date field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">31 december mmxiii</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-summary field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Axial tilt and points on the celestial sphere</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/domahoka_unefemmemariee.jpg" width="770" height="581" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>DOMAHOKA will be hibernating from here, there, and <a href="http://thecoda.lc">elsewhere</a>. Thank you to our wonderful and loyal family of readers who keep coming back even though posts have been few and far between. We’ll shed our layers and wake up in MMXIV when the Vernal Equinox is upon us, year of the Equus ferus. Delicious, golden rays of the sun. Until next time.</p>
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<p><u>words</u> Doris Ho-Kane</p>
<p><u>image</u> Godard film still, 1964</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 18:35:42 +000098 at http://www.domahoka.comHellenic Sorceryhttp://www.domahoka.com/hellenic-sorcery
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Hellenic Sorcery</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-date field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">5 december mmxiii</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-summary field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_StoneEagleton_MHo-Kane.jpg" width="770" height="433" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Mark Ho-Kane" title="Photo by Mark Ho-Kane" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_MStone_DHo-Kane.jpg" width="770" height="525" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Doris Ho-Kane" title="Photo by Doris Ho-Kane" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_AEagleton_DHo-Kane.jpg" width="770" height="484" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Doris Ho-Kane" title="Photo by Doris Ho-Kane" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We interviewed culinary duo, <a href="http://domahoka.com/mastering-the-art">Mina Stone</a> and Alex Eagleton, for <a href="http://thecoda.lc">The Coda</a>! Full interview, <a href="http://thecoda.lc/post/69107537117/a-conversation-with-mina-stone-and-alex-eagleton">this way</a>.</p>
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<p><u>images</u> <a href="http://mhokane.tumblr.com">Mark Ho-Kane</a> (1) and Doris Ho-Kane (2,3) for <a href="http://instagram.com/thecodalc">The Coda</a></p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 05 Dec 2013 22:42:49 +000097 at http://www.domahoka.comBig Dhttp://www.domahoka.com/big-d
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Big D</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-date field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">31 october mmxiii</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-summary field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The creature has a purpose, and his eyes are bright with it</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_DBader_TheCoda_MHo-Kane.jpg" width="770" height="550" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Mark Ho-Kane for The Coda" title="Photo by Mark Ho-Kane for The Coda" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Correspondence feels like a convenient and effective medium for me to express ideas that I couldn’t otherwise express: “Dear so-and-so, I’m f***ing nuts, would you be so kind as to humor me. Yours, Darren [Bader].” —Darren Bader, artist and 2013 Calder Prize Laureate. Read our interview with Big D on <a href="http://thecoda.lc/post/65633775653/a-conversation-with-darren-bader-artist-calder-prize">The Coda</a>.</p>
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<p><u>words</u> Doris Ho-Kane</p>
<p><u>image</u> Mark Ho-Kane for <a href="https://twitter.com/lccoda">The Coda</a></p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:07:01 +000096 at http://www.domahoka.comThe Kaiserhttp://www.domahoka.com/the-kaiser
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The Kaiser</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-date field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">25 october mmxiii</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-summary field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">An Evening Honoring Karl Lagerfeld Giveaway</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_ChanelClaudia_KarlLagerfeld.jpg" width="770" height="505" alt="DOMAHOKA: Claudia Schiffer by Karl Lagerfeld" title="Claudia Schiffer by Karl Lagerfeld" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_KarletChoupette.jpg" width="770" height="523" alt="DOMAHOKA: Karl et Choupette" title="Karl et Choupette" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_ShalomKristen_KarlLagerfeld.jpg" width="770" height="487" alt="DOMAHOKA: Shalom and Kristen by Karl Lagerfeld" title="Shalom and Kristen by Karl Lagerfeld" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Our first giveaway ever and it’s a good one! On the evening of November 6th at 7 PM, the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund is presenting <em>An Evening Honoring Karl Lagerfeld</em>. The Kaiser will be in an intimate conversation hosted by Academy Award nominee, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Chastain">Jessica Chastain</a>, on the Adrienne Arsht Stage of Alice Tully Hall in New York City. To purchase tickets, visit Lincoln Center’s <a href="http://lincolncenter.org/lagerfeld">ticket sale site</a> or telephone 212-721-6500.</p>
<p>A very limited number of tickets are available to the conversation portion of the event for $55–$75. Lincoln Center is offering a special student price of $20 (with current valid student ID). These special tickets are only sold at Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall Box Offices.</p>
<p>Lucky you, we’re giving away two pairs of tickets to two of our readers! To enter our contest:</p>
<p>Follow DOMAHOKA on <a href="http://twitter.com/DOMAHOKA">Twitter</a> and retweet our contest, or like us on <a href="http://facebook.com/DOMAHOKA">Facebook</a> and share the contest on your personal page. <a href="mailto:info@domahoka.com?subject=An%20Evening%20Honoring%20Karl%20Lagerfeld%20Giveaway">Email us</a> to confirm your Twitter or Facebook handle. Increase your chance of winning by following <a href="http://thecoda.lc">The Coda</a> on <a href="http://twitter.com/lccoda">Twitter</a> or <a href="http://thecoda.lc">Tumblr</a>, and we’ll add your name in the cauldron twice. We will then randomly pick two names out of a witch’s e-hat. (Our two-year-old niece Olivia’s obsession with Halloween is contagious—she’s dressing up as a “witch ghost” if you’re curious.)</p>
<p>Contest runs from today through Halloween, 11:59 PM EST. We’ll announce the winners on Twitter and Facebook on November 1st. Ghoul(d) luck!</p>
<p>Giveaway tickets are non-transferable and must be picked up at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall Box Office by Wednesday, Nov. 6th. </p>
<p>For more information about $1500 tickets to the champagne reception preceding the conversation and the black tie supper following (limited availability), email <a href="mailto:agraime@lincolncenter.org?subject=An%20Evening%20Honoring%20Karl%20Lagerfeld%20Tickets">Arlene Graime</a> or telephone 212-875-5467.</p>
<p>Darling <a href="http://twitter.com/ChoupettesDiary">Choupette</a> not included.</p>
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<p><u>words</u> Doris Ho-Kane</p>
<p><u>giveaway</u> Courtesy of <a href="http://lc.lincolncenter.org">Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts</a></p>
<p><u>image</u> Claudia Schiffer in 90s CHANEL campaign by Karl Lagerfeld</p>
<p><u>image</u> Karl et Choupette film still via NET-A-PORTER</p>
<p><u>image</u> Shalom Harlow and Kristen McMenamy in 90s CHANEL campaign by Karl Lagerfeld</p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 25 Oct 2013 15:50:58 +000095 at http://www.domahoka.comLa Forcehttp://www.domahoka.com/la-force
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">La Force</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-date field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">25 september mmxiii</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-summary field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Consciousness articulated</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_Thessaly_DHo-Kane.jpg" width="770" height="561" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I love a woman whose beauty is inherently intelligent. —<a href="http://twitter.com/Thessaly">Thessaly La Force,</a> Vogue.com culture editor. Beam yourself over to <a href="http://thecoda.lc/post/62079276798/a-conversation-with-thessaly-la-force-vogue-com">The Coda</a> for the full interview.</p>
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<p><u>image</u> Doris Ho-Kane for <a href="http://thecoda.lc">The Coda</a></p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:26:24 +000094 at http://www.domahoka.comHere and Therehttp://www.domahoka.com/here-and-there
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Here and There</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-date field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">16 september mmxiii</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-summary field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">From place to place</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_KBernard_DHo-Kane.jpg" width="770" height="556" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Doris Ho-Kane for The Coda" title="Photo by Doris Ho-Kane for The Coda" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Doris interviewed and photographed writer <a href="http://twitter.com/meta_porter">Katherine Bernard</a> for <a href="http://twitter.com/lccoda">The Coda</a>. <a href="http://thecoda.lc/post/61432966479/a-conversation-with-katherine-bernard-vogue-writer">Read </a>if you please.</p>
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<p><u>image</u> Doris Ho-Kane for <a href="http://thecoda.lc/">The Coda</a></p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 17 Sep 2013 01:36:35 +000093 at http://www.domahoka.comCaesurahttp://www.domahoka.com/caesura
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Caesura</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-date field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">4 june mmxiii</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-summary field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A pause in rhythm</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_PeterLindbergh.jpg" width="770" height="512" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Peter Lindbergh" title="Photo by Peter Lindbergh" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Simplify, simplify. —Henry David Thoreau</p>
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<p><u>image</u> Peter Lindbergh, 1998</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:30:44 +000092 at http://www.domahoka.com380–740 Nanometershttp://www.domahoka.com/380-740-nanometers
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">380–740 Nanometers</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-date field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">20 march mmxiii</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-summary field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">An interview with French photographer and director, Cyrille de Vignemont</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_1.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_12.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_6.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_11.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_10.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_4.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_5.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_7.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_8.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_9.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_3.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div><div class="field-item odd"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.domahoka.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/DOMAHOKA_CdVignemont_2.jpg" width="770" height="513" alt="DOMAHOKA: Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" title="Photo by Cyrille de Vignemont" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-vid-feat field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="433" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/37748636?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="770"></iframe></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I first noticed photographer and director Cyrille de Vignemont’s light-filled work through Isabel Marant’s Spring 2012 film. It was tranquil, minimal, natural, and familiar. A quiet scene of waking up at dawn and putting on your most comfortable, beautiful sweater. To greet the daylight, the morning, wrapped up in warmth and bathed in intense beams and rays. The shadows casting a subtle and peaceful chiaroscuro. The almighty, illuminated Sun seems to play a central character in almost all of Cyrille’s work. It inspires, nurtures, and connects him. And as a result, connects us to him. We quiver from the nostalgia, the sensory overload. The storytelling is short but imparts a haunting feeling of infinity. Depicting such an ordinary scene with such extraordinary care takes practiced skill and ingrained talent. There is a very visceral, poetic touch to all that <a href="http://www.cyrilledevignemont.com/">Cyrille</a> creates.</p>
<p>Delving deeper into Cyrille’s contemporary (art)work history, his resume is filled with great accolades and achievements. His debut Parisian photography show was at the <a href="http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/">Palais de Tokyo</a> in 2004, and shortly after, he was selected by French Art is Not Dead to represent French Avant Garde in Europe. He has since shown in <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/">Art Basel</a> and <a href="http://www.mocashanghai.org/index.php">MOCA Shanghai</a>. His body of work transpired through a natural progression, from photography to directing to advertising. In 2009, he directed his first video, <a href="http://vimeo.com/2471079"><em>Antibodies</em></a>, for Poni Hoax. Awards under his belt include the <a href="http://www.saatchi.com/new_directors_showcase">Saatchi &amp; Saatchi</a> during Cannes Lions, and he was also recognized as Best New Director and Best Narrative Video of the Year for <a href="http://vimeo.com/13811450"><em>Milk Teeth</em></a> by Mohini Geisweiller in 2011. His advertising career began with a film he directed for <a href="http://vimeo.com/11095767">Converse US</a> and most recently, as director of the<a href="http://vimeo.com/48634187"> Chanel <em>Obsession</em> film</a> starring model Edie Campbell.</p>
<p>We hope that you enjoy reading Cyrille’s brilliant answers on this luminous Spring Equinox evening. Merci beaucoup to Cyrille for taking out the time to share his light and energy with us! Merci aussi, Charlotte, for coordinating everything so seamlessly.</p>
<p><strong>Doris:</strong> You are a photographer and a director. Which do you prefer doing?</p>
<p><strong>Cyrille:</strong> Photography is more personal, intimate. I guess I will be taking pictures for my entire life. But I enjoy creating something collectively, I’m always on my own for my art projects, so it’s such a joy not to be alone when I direct a film, to be a part of a team, with a band on a music video, or an agency on a commercial, my producers, all the people on the set. Even the frustrations it may entail are outweighed by the contributions that others bring.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> Who are some artists that influence your work?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> At first I was more influenced by painters: <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fang/hd_fang.htm">Fra Angelico</a>, <a href="http://www.essentialvermeer.com/">Vermeer</a>, <a href="http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/piero">Piero della Francesca</a>, <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vela/hd_vela.htm">Velásquez</a>, obsessed me. That’s where I come from. From modern painting and contemporary art too, people like <a href="http://www.gagosian.com/artists/joseph-beuys">Joseph Beuys</a>, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/james-turrell">James Turell</a>, <a href="http://www.richardlong.org/">Richard Long</a>. I had a tremendous experience two weeks ago: visiting the <a href="http://www.grandpalais.fr/grandformat/exposition/edward-hopper/">Edward Hopper exhibition</a> at the Grand Palais in the middle of the night, it was 4 A.M., I was half asleep, and his work is so cinematic, it was like stills from a very realistic and strange dream. But yes, directors also have a huge influence on my work, and photographers too of course, but it’s more about a certain scene in a movie or that particular picture in an exhibition I saw two years ago.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> Do you shoot digitally or on film? Which do you prefer?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> Film mainly, but I have to say I mostly don’t care. I’m always buying new cameras, having long discussions with my DPs about the latest version of this model of that brand, but at the end it’s not that important.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> Your camera weapon of choice?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> A Leica M7 and an old Nikon F3, which was my very first camera. At first I used to take pictures of different roads, trees, lights, faces, houses. I stored the films but did not dare to process them. It went on like this for more than a year. I just kept hundreds of rolls of film. I loved this impression of having shot what deeply touched me, without knowing what it was for sure. Or maybe I was just scared. One day I started processing the films, some images were blurred, while others were totally overexposed, but some of them conveyed the emotion I had felt. Each time I’m shooting something, I’m hoping for the same exact experience.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> There is a lot of interesting, beautiful, and delicate light play in your work. How would you describe your aesthetic?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> My obsession with light drives my emotions. The way the rays of sunshine light up the nape of a neck, diffract on a curtain, between the diffuse and the solid, the growing shadows on a wall, the different shades. For three years now, I have been recreating my childhood, the sensations, the places, the faces; it’s my main art project. The end of holidays, my best friend running on a hill, a night procession, the smile of a girl, the early sunset foreshadowing the eventual nostalgia, the wind, the simple act of breathing, vulnerability, and also lakes and trees, other places that possess a strange, inexplicable aura. I somehow feel internally connected with the life embedded in nature. The dividing lines are fascinating, when we cross them, and the scale changes as well, the passage from childhood to adolescence, the dawn, falling in love. I would like to make light and memories so vivid you could touch them.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> If you could get into a time machine, and go backwards or forward to any year, which year would you choose to document?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> 2113. Then I would love to bring back the films in 2013. It must be mesmerizing to process pictures from the future. Or maybe these years, when we were kids, to see the difference between the pictures I create from my memories and the pictures I would take as a documentarist. Or the Big Bang. I’m sure that would produce the best abstract photographs ever.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> How did your film collaboration with <a href="http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG9908156/Isabel-Marant-I-am-my-own-muse.html">Isabel Marant</a> come about? What did the process entail?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> I love her personality, especially her laugh, and what she’s doing, she really deserves her success. The first time we talked about the film with Isabel, it was at dawn one summer morning, or maybe it was dusk, whatever. We were at her <a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/le-shack/">country cabin</a>, talking about the music video I made for Mohini Geisweiller, watching a small river, the sun falling, the wind in the trees, and we decided to make a film just about that kind of feeling: the light and the shadows, a girl waking up on simple and radiant spring morning. It was not about fashion, even if I love fashion. A few months after our project for Isabel Marant, I did a Chanel film starring Edie Campbell, and that one was more about the clothes, the style, the attitudes.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> Who would be your dream collaborator to join creative forces with?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> A writer. Let’s say <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy">Cormac McCarthy</a>. Even when I try to create sensorial narratives, I want to tell a story. For example, the video for Poni Hoax is based on a suspense that can be solved in three minutes in real time: a pregnancy test. What’s going on in a girl’s mind during those few minutes? Then come the giant bubbles which represent the ovum and human frailty like in the <a href="http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/204181/Helst-Bartolomeus-van-der-1613-70/Homo-Bulla:-A-Boy-Blowing-Bubbles-c.1665-oil-on-?search_context={%22url%22%3A%22\%2Fsearch\%2Fclassification\%2FCHILDREN-S-PORTRAITS-17TH-CENTURY\%2F048f1f8352b5411f960fa4134f12f3f3%22%2C%22filter%22%3A{%22filter_text%22%3A%22CHILDREN+S+PORTRAITS+17TH+CENTURY%22%2C%22filter_searchoption_id%22%3A%224%22%2C%22filter_assetstatus_id%22%3A1%2C%22filter_prev_text%22%3A%22CHILDREN+S+PORTRAITS+17TH+CENTURY%22}%2C%22num_results%22%3A%22290%22%2C%22sort_order%22%3A%22best_relevance%22%2C%22search_type%22%3A%22search_assets%22%2C%22item_index%22%3A29}">Homo Bulla from the Flemish XVIIth century painting</a>, the fish as the fetus, the needle for the possible abortion. Trying to embody some aspect of the unconscious. But it is also the simple story of a girl sitting on the toilet, waiting for the test result. I want to learn more about storytelling, so yes it could be a dream to meet a writer like him, and work on a screenplay.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> Who are some of your favorite clothing designers?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> I mostly wear basics by Acne, APC, Martin Margiela, and some Comme des Garçons, Burberry, Marni, and Saint Laurent. But women’s fashion is always more fascinating. My latest crush is <a href="http://www.yiqingyin.com/">Yiqing Yin</a>.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> Five words to describe your style.</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> I’m always looking for something that is simple, close, dazzling, essential, and fragile.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> What are your favorite spots in Paris for inspiration, peace and quiet, and the best pain au chocolat?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> I walk a lot, don’t have a car. I like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_du_Luxembourg">Jardin du Luxembourg</a>, specially in autumn, also like Myrha Street ’cause I always loved Parisian places with a strong connection to different cultures. I used to walk around the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_des_Vosges">Place des Vosges</a> few years ago. I love to see the sun in the mist flying away from the ponds there. And sometimes, late in the night I find inspiration in vodka at the <a href="http://silencio-club.com/en/presentation">Silencio</a>, the <a href="http://www.clublebaron.com/">Baron</a>, the <a href="http://www.timeout.fr/paris/en/bars-pubs/le-montana">Montana</a>...then at the <a href="http://www.concreteparis.fr/index.php?page=Home">Concrete parties</a>. As for the pain au chocolat, don’t know if they are the best, but I love to have breakfast at the <a href="http://www.cafedeflore.fr/">Café De Flore</a>. It’s so cliché, but it’s a two-minute walk from my apartment, and I’m there almost every day when I’m in Paris.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> What is your favorite meal to share on a cold, winter evening? There are 7 place settings besides your own at the dinner table—who would you invite?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> Urchins, and then T-bone steaks with potatoes and few bottles of Bordeaux. We would need a fireplace. Maybe we would cook food on it. My girlfriend and my friends would come. Some are musicians, others are painters, writers, or they do very different jobs. But I would also invite my sister, and my parents…family. And let’s invite new people I’ve never met as well. Would you come? <em>(Editors’ note: Oui, s’il vous plaît! Merci. Nous apporterons des Bordeaux.)</em> We would need more than seven seats. Anyway there aren’t any at my apartment, we always all sit on the parquet floor.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> What is the greatest piece of advice you’ve ever received?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> I was a kid when I received it. It was “Dieu n'aime pas les lâches” which means something like “God doesn’t love cowards.”</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> If you weren’t living in Paris, where would you lay down roots?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> Maybe California. I spent some time there these past two years and I love the light in L.A. My Parisian apartment has large windows, and on a rainy day like today, I watch the beautiful view and just want to see the sun on an uninteresting building in West Hollywood. Or in the countryside in Italy, I have amazing memories there. Or maybe in rural America, which is completely fascinating for me. I wonder what it’s like to live there, at least for a while.</p>
<p><strong>D:</strong> For us, there is the eternal dilemma of Paris or New York. There seems to be a mutual attraction. Why do you think Parisians are so drawn to New York and vice versa?</p>
<p><strong>C:</strong> More than being cities, they are mythologies. I spent nearly two years in New York before I took my first picture, going to all underground gigs, art shows, but with shadows of the 60s and the 80s in the back of my mind. I guess there is also something like that in Paris when you’re a New Yorker. And you’re right that they are like magnets. Right now I’m thinking I should just go to Charles De Gaulle International Airport and catch a plane to New York. I just want to be there again.</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-credits field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="creditsHead">Credits</p>
<p><u>words</u> Doris Ho-Kane</p>
<p><u>images</u> Cyrille de Vignemont</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:03:20 +000091 at http://www.domahoka.comLight Flighthttp://www.domahoka.com/light-flight
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Light Flight</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-date field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">13 february mmxiii</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-summary field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A very short film: A Détacher Fall/Winter 2013</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-vid-feat field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="433" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/59624096?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="770"></iframe></p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. —Anaïs Nin</p>
</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-credits field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="creditsHead">Credits</p>
<p><u>video</u> A film by DOMAHOKA</p>
<p><u>music</u> Mark Ho-Kane</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:52:41 +000090 at http://www.domahoka.com